Month: November 2013

The OneNote team recently had the chance to sit down with Chad and Carey Hayes, the writing duo who penned the script for the summer horror blockbuster “The Conjuring.” In a post on the OneNote Blog on Thursday (Halloween), the two writers share five tips for beginning and aspiring writers.

In Visual Studio 2013 Preview, “we introduced an amazing new feature called ‘Peek Definition (Alt + F12)’ that allowed you to browse definitions of symbols inline in the Editor keeping your context and place in code,” write program managers Ala Shiban and Murali Krishna Hosabettu Kamalesha, on the Visual Studio Blog.

The Surface team on Wednesday shared a look at perhaps one of the most iconic features of Surface – the kickstand. It’s part of what makes Surface so versatile, and even more so with the new two-position kickstand in Surface 2.

The Social Pane was introduced last December, and is where you can see all business interactions related to a specific record, such as an account, contact or lead, explains Anshuman Ansu in a blog post.

A preview of the new cooperative mode in “Call of Duty: Ghosts” is shared in an exclusive GameSpot video by the game’s developer, Infinity Ward.

In this hippity-hopper, Ben the Rabbit must steal from a nearby vegetable patch to feed his nieces and nephews, who he has to look after while his sister is on vacation. The goal is simple: match three of a kind and watch the veggies grow back as you do that.

The latest Red Stripe Deals, which save you at least 50 percent off the original price of a favorite app, indie game and Xbox title, include a note-taking app and two games that will keep you guessing – or fighting in the afterlife.

If you have any doubts – any question at all – about the realism of “Forza Motorsport 5,” you won’t after watching a new video documentary that shares a behind-the-scenes look of the passion for teamwork and technology shared by the makers of the game and Audi’s reigning FIA World Endurance Championship racing team, reports Xbox Wire.

On Wednesday, during Innovation Day 2013 at Microsoft Research Asia, Lvdi Wang and colleague Fan Yang made a dream come true for indecisive people everywhere: it turned a mobile phone into a hair salon, where you can try out different styles – and even cut them – without having to take one step anywhere.